Cortana goes quiet on the Fourth of July

Windows Phone 8.1 users in the U.S., had to go without personal assistant Cortana for a few hours on Friday. During this time period, inquiries to Cortana were met with a response indicating that there was a problem with the application. For example, some U.S. Windows Phone 8.1 users who were using Cortana to look up information, received a message that read, "My suggestion well is dry. Try back later or add some more interests." Some who asked the personal assistant a question were told that, "I'm sorry, the internet and I aren't talking right now."

The outage apparently affected only a small number of Windows Phone 8.1 users. Unfortunately, the same connection to Microsoft's servers that allows Cortana to be updated twice a month, is also the personal assistant's downfall. If something happens to Microsoft's servers, down she goes.

Comparing to Siri and Google Now, Cortana is not only more interactive, personal, natural, it can do works too. MS provides Cortana API to developers who can create all kinds of applications, especially when working together with Internet of Things. Expect to see Cortana controlled Home Automation systems soon.

Cortana is actually better. I was in Newyork for 3 days and tried it on my L1020.

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